Cardinals Convene Pre-Conclave Confab for Holy Ice-Breaker Games

The search for Vatican City’s next top pontiff officially commenced today, as more than 100 cardinals flocked to Rome “for the pre-conclave meeting in which the cardinals get to know one another better,” USA Today reports. What happens when you combine holy water and get-to-know you games? Holy ice breakers! But what sorts of holy ice breakers are the cardinals playing? Some ideas:

“True or False”: Everyone goes around the room and says two true things about himself and one false thing. The speaker is then politely told to go to confession because lying is a sin.

“Never Have I Ever”: Cardinals sit in a circle and announce in clockwise order things they have never done before. (Example: “I have never not nominated myself for pope during one of these things.”) Other cardinals that have done the thing the speaker has never experienced put up one finger to indicate this. The first cardinal with five fingers up is implicitly given a high-five by God.

“Categories”: A category is selected and everyone names objects, places, people, etc., that fit within this category. For instance, if the category is “religions that aren’t as cool as Catholicism,” everyone must name a religion—no repeats! no hesitating!—that is not as cool as Catholicism. The first cardinal to pause or name something that has already been said is labeled a heretic and removed from the Vatican by the Swiss Guard.

“What Women Would Ruin”:Everyone goes around the room and names something that would be different in a bad way if women were allowed to participate.